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Restoring Relationships [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Morning family, Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: the Morning DeVos. Your brother Sam Lopez aka Dj sam
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  Speaker 1: Rock so winners with a z dot RG live that's
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  Speaker 1: so Winners with a z dot org and streaming on
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  Speaker 1: my YouTube page which is called Dj Sam Rock. That's
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  Speaker 1: the name of the YouTube page. I try to simplify things,
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  Speaker 1: make everything match up. Amen, And thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for coming through. Thank you for your grace from a
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  Speaker 1: little late.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. But we're here on the.
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  Speaker 1: Morning Devot, new week, a new start of a new week.
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  Speaker 1: Amen's sister Joeyne, good morning, God bless you. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for coming through my system and a friend
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  Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo. It's good to see you, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And let's start this new week off devoting our first
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  Speaker 1: part of the day.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. If you're live with.
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  Speaker 1: Us to the Lord, and you could actually turn this
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  Speaker 1: into something a routine, a holy habit, I call it,
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  Speaker 1: to watch these Morning DeVos, Amen, and apply the word
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  Speaker 1: that we go through every day of your life, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: starting today. If this is your first time ever joining
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  Speaker 1: a Morning devotion, or ever joining into Christian podcasts or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that, you could make this a holy habit.
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  Speaker 1: I know some people that have been listening to the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: and they made it a daily habit to listen to
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  Speaker 1: the podcast on their way to school and then on
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  Speaker 1: their way to work. And man, I found that out.
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  Speaker 1: When I decided to stop, I was literally gonna stop
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  Speaker 1: years ago.
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  Speaker 2: This was years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna stop doing more morning DeVos and the
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  Speaker 1: Bible studies and all that, because, you know, I felt
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  Speaker 1: like it wasn't effective. The enemy was trying to convince me, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's not gonna affect people or whatever. So I stopped
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  Speaker 1: for a little bit, and I started getting inboxes and emails,
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  Speaker 1: and people were saying, what happened. I haven't seen a
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  Speaker 1: new podcast or anything pop up on my feed in
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  Speaker 1: a long time. And then one woman actually said that
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  Speaker 1: I messed up her routine. I said, what are you
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  Speaker 1: talking about. I didn't know the lady personally. She said, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What we would do is we would get up, I
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  Speaker 1: would take my daughter to school. We would listen to it,
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  Speaker 1: and from the time that I took my daughter to school,
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  Speaker 1: I used to continue listening on my way to work.
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  Speaker 2: It was her daily routine. She said, And I've heard that,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, okay, Lord, this is good. This
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  Speaker 2: is serious.
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  Speaker 1: I need to get back on my grind and men
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  Speaker 1: doing these place Bible studies and morning DeVos. So I
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  Speaker 1: never stopped from there, Amen, because I realized that's not
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  Speaker 1: all about how I feel about this. It's about what
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  Speaker 1: God's word says and what God work God's word will
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  Speaker 1: do in our lives on a continuous basis, on a
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  Speaker 1: day to day basis. So glorby to God. Amen, We're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about restoring relationships today. Restoring relationships today
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  Speaker 1: in the morning Devo. How does God reconcile A lot
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  Speaker 1: of things are like mysteries to me, at least in
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures.
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  Speaker 2: How does God do that?
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  Speaker 1: How does he take relationships and reconcile the relationship? How
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  Speaker 1: does he restore marriages? How does he restore relationships between
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  Speaker 1: father and son, or parents and child or child and parents?
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  Speaker 2: How does he do that? Amen?
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be in Second Corinthians, chapter number five
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  Speaker 1: Versus eighteen and nineteen restoring relationships today in the morning Devo.
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  Speaker 1: If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or any prayer requests,
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  Speaker 1: please don't hesitate to leave it on a live chat.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we're here for.
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  Speaker 1: If you're listening at So Winners with a z Org, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: this should be a way to connect. Also from the
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  Speaker 1: website and from whatever platform you're listening to or watching from,
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  Speaker 1: this should be a way to connect. Of course, YouTube
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  Speaker 1: has their own chat line, amen. Twitter has their own
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  Speaker 1: chat line. Where else Sideline, TikTok has their own chat line.
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  Speaker 2: So don't be afraid.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, if you're alive, that's so Winners with
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  Speaker 1: a z org. Amen, that's the most commons website I
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  Speaker 1: ever designed. It's an online church platform. You could actually
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  Speaker 1: live chat there as well, and I'll see it.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. So let's go for it. Let's pray first.
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  Speaker 1: After we pray, we'll shut us out for like sixty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: and then when we come back, we'll get run into
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  Speaker 1: restoring relationships today in the morning. Devo Father, thank you
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  Speaker 1: you are the reconciler. You are the one who puts
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  Speaker 1: people together, restoreres relationships, renews things. Thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for doing what you do in our lives. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for sharing your only begotten son with humanity. You change
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  Speaker 1: history forever and ever. Thank you for allowing us to
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  Speaker 1: receive the blessing of the Holy Spirit God that lives
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  Speaker 1: inside of us. Thank you for paring away where it
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  Speaker 1: seems like there's no way out. Thank you for making
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  Speaker 1: a way through life in a way that we can
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  Speaker 1: have peace and we can experience joy, we can have
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  Speaker 1: the born again experience. Thank you for restoring our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for saving us, rescuing us, and keeping us alive.
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  Speaker 1: Thank You for your hedge of protection. So right now
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  Speaker 1: prayer hedge of protection over myself, my marriage, our family,
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  Speaker 1: our children, our grandchildren, and every single person that's representing
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  Speaker 1: their families right now on the other side of the
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  Speaker 1: screen and on the other side of this mic, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: protect them, guide them, guard so that way they can
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  Speaker 1: know the power of your love.
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  Speaker 2: You're gracing your mercy upon their lives as well.
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  Speaker 1: So I speak life concerning all things living, and I
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  Speaker 1: speak death to those things that are trying to distract
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  Speaker 1: us and take us out of here. In the powerful,
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  Speaker 1: mighty holy name of Jesus, I praise by faith, and
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  Speaker 1: all those who agree we.
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  Speaker 2: Say amen to the Amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go for it. Sister sharel I see you,
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  Speaker 1: my sister. Good morning to you as well, and God
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  Speaker 1: bless you as well. Thank you so much for coming
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  Speaker 1: through to the morning Devo.
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  Speaker 2: So let's go for it. I'll be sharing this out
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  Speaker 2: for sixty seconds.
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  Speaker 1: When I come back, we'll get right into restoring relationships
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  Speaker 1: today on the morning Devo, I'll be right back.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, We're back right here in the morning devot.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. So I see the superstar Brother Maurice Wells is
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  Speaker 2: with us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you and good morning, blessing to you and your family.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We were paying phone tack the other day, my brother,
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  Speaker 1: so hopefully we could connect soon. I'm praying healing over
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  Speaker 1: your body physically, mentally and spiritually, and I'm praying peace
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  Speaker 1: upon your life.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Brother Maurice.
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  Speaker 1: Keep Brother Maurice, and prayer, ladies and gentlemen, Amen, so
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  Speaker 1: that way health of good return back to his body,
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  Speaker 1: he will be made whole and new again.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Amen. Sister Joanne, I see you.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you Lord for another day that you give
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  Speaker 1: me another day to wake up and another day to breathe.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord is so good. I thank you Lord for being.
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  Speaker 1: With me and my husband and my family and guiding
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  Speaker 1: us Lord and being with my sister through the surgery.
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  Speaker 2: You are good. Yes, he is good. God is good. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: God is good. It's like that's not even a cliche
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  Speaker 2: in my life.
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  Speaker 1: I really know it and I really mean it because
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  Speaker 1: I experienced the commentation and see the goodness of God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. And God won't want.
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  Speaker 1: To return back to your old ways, your old lifestyle
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that, because you know the goodness of
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  Speaker 1: God and he's restoring relationships.
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  Speaker 2: So I said, let me, let me tell you stores relationships. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So let's go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put this on the screen for those who
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  Speaker 1: are just listening, no worries. You're not gonna see the image,
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  Speaker 1: of course, but you're gonna hear what we're seeing. Gonna
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  Speaker 1: read the word for word, Amen, So that way nobody
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  Speaker 1: misses a beat. So restoring relationships.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The God who restores, redeems, renewed man. He's the God
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  Speaker 1: of the read right Tewod Corinthians, chapter number five.
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  Speaker 2: Verses eighteen and nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, but all things are from God through Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is reconciled us, reconciled us to himself, received
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  Speaker 1: us into favor, brought us into harmony with himself. That's
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  Speaker 1: the first reconciliation, Amen, and gave to us the ministry
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  Speaker 1: of reconciliation. So he reconciled us to him, and then
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  Speaker 1: he gave us that gift a man, that ministry of reconciliation.
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  Speaker 1: So whoever thinks they're not a minister, and you're in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: you're born again, you are actually ordained minister of reconciliation,
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  Speaker 1: ordained by Jesus the Lord himself. Amen, credentials are good,
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  Speaker 1: but remember who you are anointed by. Remember who you
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  Speaker 1: are given the ministry of reconcilation by, by the Lord himself.
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  Speaker 1: If you're born again, right, that by word and deed,
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  Speaker 1: we might aim to bring others into harmony with him.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a whole ministry. Now we're reconciled. Now
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  Speaker 1: we're going to go ahead and get the gift of
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  Speaker 1: reconciliation and the ministry of reconcilation and go to others
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  Speaker 1: and try to get them and bring them into harmony
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  Speaker 1: with him. It was God personally present in Christ reconciling
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  Speaker 1: and restoring the world to favor with himself, not counting
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  Speaker 1: up and holding against men their trespasses, but canceling them
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  Speaker 1: right and committing to us the message of reconciliation, of
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  Speaker 1: the restoration to favor. In other words, God is not
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  Speaker 1: going to count our sins against us a man.
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  Speaker 2: Once we're born again, he's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to reconcile us to him that he's going to
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  Speaker 1: give us the ministry of reconciliation, and then we could
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  Speaker 1: go and tell others about the Lord's goodness. And he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna give us the ability to cause harmony with others
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  Speaker 1: to him because it was Him personally presentent Christ, God
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  Speaker 1: personally present in Christ, reconciling and restoring the whole world
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  Speaker 1: to favor with himself, not counting up our sins, our trespasses,
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  Speaker 1: not the wrongs.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We're to go with the spirit of reconciliation to try
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  Speaker 1: to restore relationships, and not only in our own families,
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  Speaker 1: not only with our own.
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  Speaker 2: Relationships, but with others as well.
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  Speaker 1: Now we know all of us could testify that God
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  Speaker 1: could do this through us. We might not think so.
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  Speaker 1: We might be like looking at relationships or maybe your
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  Speaker 1: own relationship and like there's no way.
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  Speaker 2: But with God, it's always away. Amen. If it's God's will, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: let him do his will in your life.
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  Speaker 1: I do that in my life. Amen, And let him
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  Speaker 1: do his work. He's an amazing God, powerful God, perfect God.
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  Speaker 1: He knows what he's doing. He knows what he's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: This word is truth, his word is grace, his word
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  Speaker 1: is mercy.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. And he gave us this ministry of reconciliation.
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  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing when we get this, man, when
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  Speaker 1: we get this, we are we are just on point
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  Speaker 1: when we use the word of God, apply the word
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  Speaker 1: of God a man we are on point with and
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  Speaker 1: we're aligned with the thoughts and processes of God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: No one could take that away from us, no one.
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  Speaker 1: We are forgiven, we are born again, we are renewed,
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  Speaker 1: we are restored.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And we got the we got the privilege of having
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  Speaker 1: a ministry of reconciliation.
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  Speaker 2: That's why every believer deep down on us.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want things to go wrong in nobody's life.
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  Speaker 1: We don't wish the worst on our worst enemy. We
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  Speaker 1: don't wish hell on nobody. We wish that none will perish.
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  Speaker 1: But everyone get this gospel message in their heart and
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  Speaker 1: receive the eternal life that we received. We don't We
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  Speaker 1: don't enjoy when people fall into sin. We don't celebrate
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  Speaker 1: other people's calamities. We don't celebrate divorce, we don't celebrate abortion.
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  Speaker 1: We don't celebrate things that happen relationships that other people
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  Speaker 1: are saying they deserve that, right, all the stuff and
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  Speaker 1: the celebrities that are acting wild right now, or we
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  Speaker 1: don't celebrate that. We don't say ah, point fingers and
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  Speaker 1: say you deserve that. No, because we know that if
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't for the grace of God, we would be
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  Speaker 1: in the same predicament.
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  Speaker 2: We would be in that same situation.
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  Speaker 1: So we're not to judge the world, Amen, but we're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to do righteous judgment in the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: If you call yourself a brother or sistem the.
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  Speaker 1: Lord, Amen, and you're caught out there doing some crazy stuff, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna come with a gentle spirit, amen, and try
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  Speaker 1: to reconcile you back into right standing with the Lord
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  Speaker 1: by showing up with the word a man with love
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  Speaker 1: and gentle spirit. Try to restore you back to the
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  Speaker 1: faith and to the fold. Because you're acting differently than
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  Speaker 1: we're supposed to act.
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  Speaker 2: We're going on maybe on.
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  Speaker 1: A different path that we know we're not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be on, that you're not supposed to be on, that
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  Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to be on. So I expect one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent, my brothers and sisters to keep me in
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  Speaker 1: check if I have a gold rogue, right, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: because out of love, if you love me, you canna
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  Speaker 1: tell me the truth. And you get to risk our relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You can risk our friendship, risk everything just to get
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  Speaker 1: me off a cliff if you know that if I
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  Speaker 1: take one more step, I'm going to fall and perish.
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  Speaker 1: That's love, man, And I know it's not usual for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. So when people actually do the
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  Speaker 1: ministry of reconciliation, sometimes they're ousted. They're like, oh, you're judgmental,
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  Speaker 1: you're too religious.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you think you are?
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  Speaker 1: And they get you out of here. Amen, because we're
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  Speaker 1: not used to that, at least in my region. We're
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  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters and the Lord the body of Price
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  Speaker 1: and my region.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. It's not done too much. It's not done too often.
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  Speaker 1: So when somebody steps up in love and tries to
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  Speaker 1: make reconciliation and get people right standing back with the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: you get all kind of stuff going on, and people
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  Speaker 1: hurl accusations at you, the one who's trying to reconcile.
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  Speaker 1: We are in the world, not of the world any longer. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: We're in the same boat.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that we're on a different stream right now,
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  Speaker 1: we're in a different ocean.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So once we go into other people's lives with the
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  Speaker 1: gospel message, they could take it two ways. Either they
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  Speaker 1: gonna take it as judgmental or they gonna take it
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  Speaker 1: as a loving gesture.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. There's only two. It's only two. There's no three options.
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  Speaker 1: Either that you're gonna receive the Gospel, receive correction, or
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna reject it and block out the blessing that
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  Speaker 1: God has for you. And I'm talking to the church first, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Judgment comes to the body. First, Judgment comes to the
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  Speaker 1: church first.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And all the people that are out there, they don't
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  Speaker 1: know Christ. They're doing what the Word says they're gonna do. Right,
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna be selfish. It's all about them, the pride
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  Speaker 1: of life, the lust of the flesh, the lust of
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  Speaker 1: the eyes, the world system.
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  Speaker 2: The devil. They'll be all wrapped up in that.
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  Speaker 1: Because we know that for sure, because before Christ we
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  Speaker 1: with them. So that's why we should have compassion and
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  Speaker 1: just listen to people's stories and be able to minister
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  Speaker 1: the ministry of reconciliation that we have, that we are
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  Speaker 1: ordained by God, through Jesus, Amen, by wave Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: we have the ministry of reconciliation, restoring relationships.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We could do that. We have to do it in love.
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  Speaker 1: Brother frank, I see you. Good morning. God, bless you
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  Speaker 1: and your family and everybody on the devo this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for the blessing my friend and my broke.
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  Speaker 1: Amen's good to see so. Restoring relationship. How does God reconcile. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he does it by way of his power, his love,
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  Speaker 1: his grace is mercy, Amen, through his spirit, through his word,
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  Speaker 1: through his people, through his children.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And he reconciles us first back, He restores the first
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  Speaker 1: most important relationship. He restores us back to him. We
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  Speaker 1: can't do this without him.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine doing the ministry of reconciliation without the annointing and
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  Speaker 1: power of the Holy Spirit in us. We will really
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  Speaker 1: really be having an uphill battle. We'll be doing it
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  Speaker 1: on our own, with our own our ideas, our own opinions.
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  Speaker 1: And frankly, I don't think that'll work out. I mean
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  Speaker 1: maybe we'll We'll get some people back temporarily, but we
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  Speaker 1: want people back eternally. A man, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: have relationship with the Lord, I don't want to have
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  Speaker 1: salvation life, I don't want to have born again experience.
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  Speaker 1: I want it all, and you should want it all too.
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  Speaker 1: So we come with the full Gospel, the full message,
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God. Amen, and in the way we
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  Speaker 1: understand it and allow Holy Spirit to do the rest.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I can't formulate anything on my.
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  Speaker 1: Own to try to get people backstanding right with God, reconciliation,
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  Speaker 1: restoring lives, restoring relationships.
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  Speaker 2: I can't do that on my own.
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit could do it, though he knows exactly what's
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  Speaker 1: going on with the individual, with the family, with the relationship,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the case. Holy Spirit knows exactly. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what's going on in your life. You don't know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what's going on in my life. But guess who does,
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, God who lives within every single child of God.
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  Speaker 2: And we were walking around with a big old light.
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  Speaker 1: That's why when we walk into dark places, the light
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  Speaker 1: just has to leave. And the people who are full
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  Speaker 1: with demons and evil spirits they manifest sometimes because they
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  Speaker 1: don't like the light that we're coming through with. No
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  Speaker 1: one wants their stuff exposed, no one wants their sins exposed.
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  Speaker 1: So when the light of Christ enters into a situation, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: there should be some manifestation. People will realize that we're
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  Speaker 1: glowing with the light of Christ. We are the light
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  Speaker 1: of the world and the salt of the earth according
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord Jesus. That's who we are in this world.
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  Speaker 1: So we're not gonna fit in. We're always gonna stand out.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll stand up, Amen, and will be who God
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  Speaker 1: calls us to be without apology.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't apologize for being a born again believer. You
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't either. But let's let's approach people with love. People
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  Speaker 1: are hurting, People's relationships have been damaged, tarnished by for
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  Speaker 1: whatever means a man, whatever reason. But God wants to
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  Speaker 1: all of us to be restored back to Him. Get
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  Speaker 1: the favor of God back in our lives and man,
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  Speaker 1: and keep moving forward. You get up from the point
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  Speaker 1: where you fel You get up from there. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to go back all the way from start day one.
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  Speaker 1: You start from wherever God lifts you up from. And
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  Speaker 1: you keep my moving forward. We are blessed used by
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  Speaker 1: God for his glory. Yes, and he'll get his glory
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  Speaker 1: if I say, one day, you know what I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to participate anymore in the body of Christ. God
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  Speaker 1: will say, Okay, I'll use someone else because he's going
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  Speaker 1: to get the glory regardless a man that he'll work.
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  Speaker 2: In my life.
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  Speaker 1: And on the side, if he wants to keep me
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  Speaker 1: in the back of the desert for how many years
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  Speaker 1: like he did to Moses, then I have to accept
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  Speaker 1: that because he has the best plan for my life.
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  Speaker 1: He has the best plan for your life. But when
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  Speaker 1: you step up, it seems like God would say, okay, you.
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  Speaker 2: You want to do this.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be a minister of reconciliation to your
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  Speaker 1: own community, to your neighborhood, to your city, to your.
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  Speaker 2: Borrow, to your state. Amen, He'll let it happen because
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  Speaker 2: he knows that he anointed you to do that, that
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  Speaker 2: he gave you the gift of.
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  Speaker 1: Reconciliation and the ministry of reconciliation. Because all things are
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  Speaker 1: from God, who, through Jesus Christ, reconciled us to himself.
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  Speaker 1: He literally received us into favor, brought us into harmony
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  Speaker 1: with himself. The first relationship, I think, the most important
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  Speaker 1: relationship we could ever work on, is our relationship with God.
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  Speaker 2: You know, of course, when we're born.
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  Speaker 1: We look at our parents as our first heroes, or
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  Speaker 1: at least they should have been our first heroes if
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  Speaker 1: everything went accordingly, Amen, and you had a dad and
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  Speaker 1: a mom.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Some people never met their parents. Some people never met
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  Speaker 1: their father or never met at their mom. But let's
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  Speaker 1: just say that you did meet one of your parents
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  Speaker 1: or both of your parents.
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  Speaker 2: Usually, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I can't say for everybody, but usually
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  Speaker 1: they become your first influencers, Amen, because.
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  Speaker 2: They're raising you.
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  Speaker 1: If they took out responsibility and they were honored enough
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  Speaker 1: to raise us. Amen, they are first people that we've
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  Speaker 1: seen and we follow after.
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  Speaker 2: But how about when you're born again?
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  Speaker 1: That's when you're born naturally, when you're born again, who's
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  Speaker 1: the first person you realize that?
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  Speaker 2: It's there?
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  Speaker 1: Your heavenly Father, right, and he wants us to be reconciled,
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  Speaker 1: brought us into harmony with himself. Then he does that,
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  Speaker 1: and then he gives us the ministry of reconciliation. We're
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  Speaker 1: ministers of reconciliation. It was God, God personally present in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: reconciling and restoring the world to favor with himself. It
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  Speaker 1: could be the unmerited favor, it could be through grace right,
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  Speaker 1: marry the favor, the favor of God that we don't deserve.
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  Speaker 1: So God is a god that he's a God of mercy,
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  Speaker 1: he holds back what we do deserve, and God of grace,
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  Speaker 1: he gives us what we don't deserve.
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  Speaker 2: So both sides are covered. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So we can't go around wallowing in our you know stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We can't going around go around blaming God for this,
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  Speaker 1: that and the third, or saying that God didn't show
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  Speaker 1: up in our lives when He literally literally show up
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  Speaker 1: in our lives by way of his Holy Spirit. He
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  Speaker 1: forgave us for all our sins, so we're not trapped
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  Speaker 1: or we're not bound by our sinful nature anymore. He
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  Speaker 1: gave us the ministry of reconcilation. We have favored with him.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We have his word, We have His Holy Spirit living
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  Speaker 1: and breathing inside of every single one of his children.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Then we have a Word that is alive. Everything about
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  Speaker 1: God is living alive. There's nothing dead in God's words,
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  Speaker 1: nothing dead and his Holy Spirit. You know what we
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  Speaker 1: die to. We died to the bondages of sin. We
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  Speaker 1: are no longer under the law of sin and death,
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  Speaker 1: though we are in grace, and we have Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: God teaching, guiding, protecting us, comforting us, giving us what
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  Speaker 1: really the world needs. When the Holy Spirit leaves out
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  Speaker 1: of this world, this world system is going to finally
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  Speaker 1: realize the ugliness of the rule of this world system,
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  Speaker 1: and they're gonna be without Holy Spirit filled Christians, born
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  Speaker 1: again believers on His Earth. And then it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be it's going to be a day to reckon with
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  Speaker 1: a man of season of life that all those who
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  Speaker 1: denied Jesus now they're gonna wish they would have accepted
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel message through whatever believer presented them the Gospel message.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't want to be on that boat. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be like man I wish I would have.
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  Speaker 1: I thank God for his grace that I called on
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  Speaker 1: God years ago and he literally saved my life, rescued
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  Speaker 1: me amen, and he reconciled me back to favor with
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  Speaker 1: himself all along. I believe that when Jesus died on
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  Speaker 1: the cross, all along, I think he was looking at
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  Speaker 1: all of us, those in those years passed and those
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  Speaker 1: in present right now, and some people in the future.
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  Speaker 1: I believe he wishes that nonune shopperatures, like he said,
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  Speaker 1: but everyone received the gospel of eternal life. He forgave
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  Speaker 1: all those on the cross that were mocking him, ridiculing him,
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  Speaker 1: accusing him of blasphemy. Blasphemy, he said, Father, forgive them,
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  Speaker 1: for they do not know what they do. Because if
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  Speaker 1: they had known the love of God at that point
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  Speaker 1: and the sacrifice that was being made for them, they
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  Speaker 1: would have changed their mind so quick. But God's a
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  Speaker 1: god of grace and mercy, so he forgave them, even
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  Speaker 1: when he was on his dying cross, a man who who.
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  Speaker 2: Else would have did that for us? No one? Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He paid the debt that he didn't owe. Amen, he
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  Speaker 1: paid that price for us. We owed the debt, yet
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  Speaker 1: he paid for it. He was without saying. Yet he
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  Speaker 1: took the sins of the world upon himself to reconcile
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  Speaker 1: us back to him. Amazing, So restarting relationships, Amen, go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and read the scripture for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Tewod Corinthians chapter five.
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  Speaker 1: We camped out on verses eighteen and nineteen, but I
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  Speaker 1: suggest you read the whole chapter for yourself to make
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  Speaker 1: sure I didn't take this out of context.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you so much for coming through and listening
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  Speaker 1: and watching. God bless you all, God keep you all,
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  Speaker 1: and remember always that God is good.
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  Speaker 2: Peace,